Privacy, OPSEC, Obfuscation, Infosec, Digital Profiling and The-OSINT-Toolbox.
I first became interested in the potential of Wigle (Wireless Geographic Logging Engine) and Wardriving for the purpose of OSINT just short of 3 years ago after reading Micah’s (@WebBreacher) excellent blog on it, which you can read here, https://osintcurio.us/2019/01/15/tracking-all-the-wifi-things/. Since then it has become one of my go to tools for OSINT. I would … Read More “The World of Wigle” »
So for my latest blog I decided too see if free Wi-Fi is indeed free or whether it comes with a hidden cost. Now I don’t use public Wi-Fi not because it is inherently vulnerable, as I can use a VPN to negate some of the risk, however for those who don’t use a VPN … Read More “Free Wi-fi, is it free?” »
I have been posting about WhatsApp recently so I thought I would make them all into a small blog. I was surprised (Or maybe I wasn’t) that It was recently revealed that the Prime Minister was using WhatsApp to communicate with his cabinet. The Digital Exposure vulnerabilities to the PM, would immediately be apparent to … Read More “What’s Up, with WhatsApp” »
Authors Ritu Gill & Ginger T After conducting some LinkedIn research recently, I noticed several differences between how Google and Bing returned results and the information contained within them. I posted some tips on Twitter and Ritu Gill @OSINTtechniques, also posted some in her reply. So we decided to get together to write this article … Read More “Are You Linked In?” »
I suppose there is a certain paradox in relation to having content about OSINT, OPSEC & Privacy on the same website. Why would someone who is involved in OSINT care about a person’s Privacy or why would someone who is keen on their Privacy care about OSINT or OPSEC. I hope from the explanation below … Read More “Understanding The Links” »
It has been established for some time now, that to protect our privacy the use of a VPN is almost mandatory. For an OSINT practitioner their use is far more than that, yes there certainly is the OPSEC perspective, but can we manipulate then for the benefit of our OSINT work? VPNs come in many … Read More “Effective Use of a VPN in OSINT” »
Do you want more control over what recipients can do with your email and attachments? I have decided to put together a quick blog, nothing fancy on how you might want to have more control over how emails and attachments are treated by the recipient. I welcome any feedback if people have other tricks of … Read More “Do Not Forward or Copy!” »
It has been a while now since my last blog post, so I thought it was time I got the keyboard out. I hadn’t realised how long it had actually been until I started migrating my Medium content to my own website. I want to write a small blog on how we can use an … Read More “Email to Username” »
